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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2022

An Engineered Cytidine Deaminase for Biocatalytic Production of a Key Intermediate of the Covid-19 Antiviral Molnupiravir.

Ashleigh J Burke, William R Birmingham, Ying Zhuo, Thomas W Thorpe, Bruna Zucoloto da Costa, Rebecca Crawshaw, Ian Rowles, James D Finnigan, Carl Young, Gregory M Holgate and 5 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Promiscuity-Guided Enzyme Evolution via Substrate Multiplexed Screening.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  6. The Impact of Metagenomics on Biocatalysis.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ashleigh J BurkeDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.
William R BirminghamDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-8880-5502
Ying ZhuoDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.
Thomas W ThorpeDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.
Bruna Zucoloto da CostaDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.
Rebecca CrawshawDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.
Ian RowlesDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.
James D FinniganProzomix Ltd, Building 4, West End Ind. Estate, Haltwhistle NE49 9HA, U.K.
Carl YoungProzomix Ltd, Building 4, West End Ind. Estate, Haltwhistle NE49 9HA, U.K.
Gregory M HolgateSterling Pharma Solutions, Sterling Place, Dudley, Northumberland NE23 7QG, U.K.
Mark P MuldowneySterling Pharma Solutions, Sterling Place, Dudley, Northumberland NE23 7QG, U.K.
Simon J CharnockProzomix Ltd, Building 4, West End Ind. Estate, Haltwhistle NE49 9HA, U.K.
Sarah L LovelockDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-4584-3189
Nicholas J TurnerDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-8708-0781
Anthony P GreenDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-0454-1798
University of Manchester · GBProzomix (United Kingdom) · GBSterling Research Group · US

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M017702/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M027023/1Medical Research Council MR/T041722/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic highlights the urgent need for cost-effective processes to rapidly manufacture antiviral drugs at scale. Here we report a concise biocatalytic process for Molnupiravir, a nucleoside analogue recently approved as an orally available treatment for SARS-CoV-2. Key to the success of this process was the development of an efficient biocatalyst for the production of

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentSARS-CoV-2BiocatalysisCytidineCytidine DeaminaseEscherichia coliHydroxylaminesMetabolic EngineeringProtein EngineeringUridineAntiviral AgentsCytidineCytidine DeaminaseHydroxylaminesmolnupiravirUridine

Identifiers

PMID35224970
PMCPMC8915250
OpenAlexW4214541737

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